Julio Cortázar

Julio Cortázar

Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe. He is considered one of the most innovative and original authors of his time, a master of history, poetic prose and short story in general and a creator of important novels that inaugurated a new way of making literature in the Hispanic world by breaking the classical moulds through narratives that escaped temporal linearity. He lived his childhood and adolescence and incipient maturity in Argentina and, after the 1950s, in Europe. He lived in Italy, Spain, and in Switzerland. In 1951, he settled in France for more than three decades and composed some of his works there. Julio Cortázar was born on 26 August 1914, in Ixelles, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. According to biographer Miguel Herráez, his parents, Julio José Cortázar and María Herminia Descotte, were Argentine citizens, and his father was attached to the Argentine diplomatic service in Belgium. At the time of Cortázar's birth, Belgium was occupied by the German troops of Kaiser Wilhelm II. After German troops arrived in Belgium, Cortázar and his family moved to Zürich where María Herminia's parents, Victoria Gabel and Louis Descotte (a French National), were waiting in neutral territory. The family group spent the next two years in Switzerland, first in Zürich, then Geneva, before moving for a short period to Barcelona. The Cortázars settled outside of Buenos Aires by the end of 1919. Cortázar's father left when Julio was six, and the family had no further contact with him. Cortázar spent most of his childhood in Banfield, a suburb south of Buenos Aires, with his mother and younger sister. The home in Banfield, with its back yard, was a source of inspiration for some of his stories. Despite this, in a letter to Graciela M. de Solá on 4 December 1963, he described this period of his life as "full of servitude, excessive touchiness, terrible and frequent sadness." He was a sickly child and spent much of his childhood in bed reading. His mother, who spoke several languages and was a great reader herself, introduced her son to the works of Jules Verne, whom Cortázar admired for the rest of his life. In the magazine Plural (issue 44, Mexico City, May 1975) he wrote: "I spent my childhood in a haze full of goblins and elves, with a sense of space and time that was different from everybody else's". ... Source: Article "Julio Cortázar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Popularity : 1.579
  • Known For : Writing
  • Birthday : 1914-08-26
  • Place of Birth : Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
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Julio Cortázar Movies

  • 1970
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    IN DEPTH: Julio Cortázar

    IN DEPTH: Julio Cortázar

    1 1970 HD

    Interview conducted with Julio Cortázar by journalist Joaquín Soler Serrano on March 20, 1977.

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  • 2022
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    The Padilla Affair

    The Padilla Affair

    7 2022 HD

    Havana, spring 1971: The poet Heberto Padilla has just been set free and appears before the Cuban Writers' Union where he pronounces a statement of...

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  • 1994
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    Cortázar

    Cortázar

    6 1994 HD

    A portrait which explores the legacy and impact of novelist Julio Cortazar's art, perceptively examining it within the context of shifting tides of...

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  • 1966
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    Blow-Up

    Blow-Up

    7.354 1966 HD

    A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and...

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  • 2020
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    Cortázar: instrucciones de montaje (I)

    Cortázar: instrucciones de montaje (I)

    1 2020 HD

    Cortázar: Instrucciones de montaje (I) Collects the writer's underlines and notes, challenging concepts such as reading, personal library or...

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  • 2019
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    Mario y los perros

    Mario y los perros

    7 2019 HD

    An account of the childhood and youth of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, and how the hard experiences he...

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  • 2019
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    Amargo era el postre

    Amargo era el postre

    6 2019 HD

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  • 1966
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    Blow-Up

    Blow-Up

    7.354 1966 HD

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  • 1999
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    Furia

    Furia

    5.5 1999 HD

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  • 2017
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    La Puerta Condenada

    La Puerta Condenada

    1 2017 HD

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  • 1964
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    Circe

    Circe

    4.7 1964 HD

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  • 1967
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    Weekend

    Weekend

    7 1967 HD

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  • 2012
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    La Noche Boca Arriba

    La Noche Boca Arriba

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1962
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    Odd Number

    Odd Number

    5.7 1962 HD

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  • 1998
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    A Hora Mágica

    A Hora Mágica

    5.3 1998 HD

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  • 2006
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    La inmiscusión terrupta

    La inmiscusión terrupta

    1 2006 HD

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  • 1974
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    Monsieur Bébé

    Monsieur Bébé

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1965
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    Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell

    Leonora Carrington or The Ironic Spell

    10 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    El perseguidor

    El perseguidor

    5.7 1965 HD

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  • 2024
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    Serán Legión

    Serán Legión

    1 2024 HD

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  • 1965
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    Intimidad de los parques

    Intimidad de los parques

    4.8 1965 HD

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  • 2009
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    Made Up Memories

    Made Up Memories

    5 2009 HD

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  • 1970
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    Casa tomada

    Casa tomada

    1 1970 HD

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  • 2014
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    Historias de Cronopios y de Famas

    Historias de Cronopios y de Famas

    5 2014 HD

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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